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Concrete actions must begin now to mitigate or reverse grave threats to the world’s oceans, UNDP and Global Environment Facility experts said today at the launch of a report on how strengthened markets and policies can better protect oceans and coastal areas.

Forty international football players will join UNDP Goodwill Ambassadors and football legends Ronaldo and Zinédine Zidane at the tenth annual Match Against Poverty, held this year in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

The 6th edition of the Africités Summit took place from the 4th to the 8th of December 2012, in Dakar, Senegal. More than 5000 participants and 500 exhibitors of the African continent took part in the Summit.

Private-public partnerships can play an effective part in increasing disaster preparedness and response, according to UN officials and representatives of global corporations who took part in a debate in New York yesterday.

Representatives from government, regional and international bodies, the private sector and civil society from across Africa are gathering today in Dakar to discuss top priorities to be included in the global development framework beyond 2015.

Strengthening the rule of law, justice and security will be critical for the stability and inclusive growth of Arab states, especially those now facing the transition to democracy, said the head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Ms. Helen Clark, the Administrator of UNDP and the Chair of the United Nations Development Group concluded a three day visit to Baghdad.
“I came to Baghdad to give support and visibility to the work that UNDP and the UN Country Team do in Iraq.”

reater cooperation to support Least Developed Countries in pursuing sustainable development and contributing to a new universal development framework will be central to the growing partnership between the Government of Turkey and UNDP.